LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 10 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

A meeting of about one hundred shareholders of the Talisman Company on Thursday resolved that, in view of the great saving that can he effected, to approve of the removal of the head office from London to New Zealand. After the big dairy meeting, held in the Opera House on Thursday, had Concluded, Mr A. M. Conroy put on the screen the picture shoning the war on the French front. Those present heartily .appreciated this thoughtful action on the part of the proprietor. Foreign Mission services will be held in the Manaia Methodist Church on Sunday next, when the Rev. E. O. Blamires will preach in the morning, and the Rev. W. S. Neal in the evening. Similar services will be held at Auroa and Okaiawa at 2 p.m. The Life and Work Committee of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, at a meeting in Napier on Thursday, passed a resolution appealing to Parliament not to sanction any relaxation of the gaming law for the benefit of patriotic, philanthropic, or other beneficent schemes during the war. A euchre party and dance will be held in the Railway Hail this evening. Good prizes will be given for the euchre, and first-class music for the dancing will be provided by Mr N. Kirk. The manager of the Melbourne, Ltd., notifies that tho firm's semi-annual reduction sale will positively end on Saturday. 18th inst. Anyone requiring apparel or drapery should therefore make their nurchasps before that aate so as to take full advantage of tho reduced prices.—AdH.

i &U! mlocafc-in.-.Th^ra^y^t^r :*efer P . ring to .cassk .deposit, <l wso\iatß'-'&t £ke' Post Office, ;lKg "for feephone bureau" were by'inadvertence omitted.' tlt does not,' of course; refer to savinga bank deposits. We have been asked to; state by those nil attendance at the meeting, that Mr Conroy made, no charge to* the dairy men for the use of the Opera House on Thursday, for the meeting to consider the question of the supply of cheese for the British Army. His generosity was greatly appreciated by the meeting. At the meeting of the dairymen in the Opera House on Thursday afternoon, a director of a factory asked the Dairy Commissioner what the position was »with regard to the branding of >vney butter, ''because companies did not seem to know where they were in inie matter:" Mr Cuddie replied that i was rather surprised to 'hear this, because a departmental circular, fully explaining everything, had been sent to every ractory. It was clearly stated in the circular that all whey butter should be branded with its proper designation, namely, "whey butter."" The Maoris engaged on the Waikato river in catching the dainty and succulent little fish, Known as whitebait, have gotte on strike (the Pukekohe Times relates) "and the supply has accordingly temporarily ceased. The den .and being poor this year tlie price dropped to 4d per lb on the river, and as the natives refuse to t,ell uiidor 6d they have stopped fishing There is very little chance of the price advanciug this season, as large stocks ow canned fish were carried over from last year, and the local factory is only dealing with a small quantity. Good noney, it is claimed, can be mudeat 4d per lb, but after sceveral years of high prices the Maoris don't like to take a" io\w.r %iire, so they havty imitated the pakeha and struck work. Ah in memoriam «eryice,;in, ionot vate Eric Burr, who nave ifa-llen "on the Gallipoli Peninsula; will be held in the Normaniby Presbyterian. Church on Sunday evening, and appropriate hymns will be sung, and the National Antb.ems of Britain, France, and Russia ,' Jwill be 'played' by the organist. The National >Reservej Territorials and Cadet® have been invited io be present ; they will paracfe in front of the church at 6.45 p.m., and the service will commence at 7 o'clock. The two deceased soldiers were well known and highly respected in the district, and it 18 expected that there will be a large congregation.

Writing of the prespects of the angling season in South Canterbury a Christchurch correspondent states that a good fall of rain in the foothills had effected a great improvement in the Selwyn and Ashley rivers particularly. On the whole the prospects are decidedly bright. The Christchurch Society is allowing boats on Lake Lyndon this year, and anglers think this is a very wise course, as the water showed a tendency to become overstocked, and that would have been fatal from an angler's point of view, as witness Lake Rotorua, and other rainbow lakes in the North Island. There is little doubt that some of the best rainbow fishing in the Dominion will be enjoyed in the back-coun-try lakes during the coming seasons.